Dr. Hilton is the Senior Research Scientist
at Waypoint, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University
of Toronto, and an Adjunct Scientist at The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health
Research, University of Ottawa. Since joining Waypoint over 25 years ago, she
has worked both as a front-line clinician and full-time researcher. Dr. Hilton
conducts research that pertains to offenders, psychiatric patients, and the professional
who provides services for them. She has conducted influential research in the
areas of domestic violence, risk assessment, risk communication, and more
recently the physical health and psychological wellbeing of both patients and
staff at psychiatric hospitals. She is the Principal Investigator on funded
PTSD research with those who work in psychiatric hospitals. Another major
research project follows a new cohort of forensic patients from admission
through four years in forensic care to explore how their histories and
adjustment in the hospital are related to aggressive behaviour and measures of
success. She is a co-investigator on a SSHRC-funded project, led by Sandy Jung,
MacEwan University and with Alberta’s Integrated Threat and Risk Assessment
Centre (ITRAC) and Carleton University, to examine the use of domestic violent
risk assessment in threat assessment. Dr. Hilton also is a collaborator in the
SSHRC-funded Canadian Domestic
Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations. Dr. Hilton
earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree
in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, as well as a Bachelor’s degree
in Psychology from the University of Southampton.

Dr.
Hilton welcomes research interns, graduate students, and co-op placement
students. She can supervise thesis work for graduate students in research or
clinical programs and serve as an external examiner.